An NPR piece today noted that Canada is our biggest trading partner. There is, for instance, a tremendously significant export/import dynamic around automotive vehicles and parts. Trump is threatening tariffs on imports of these (and other products), to play hard … Continue reading
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Continuing to catch up on last couple months… I recently interviewed Bluffton farmer Greg Probst at his “Century Farm” for a local newspaper article. He grows everything organically, has free-range chickens (no antibiotics), etc., etc., etc… He said he … Continue reading
Continuing to catch up on the last couple months… My son and I recently traveled south an hour to Mt. Victory, Ohio, where we did a series of short videos around Amish beliefs (Mt. Victory is replete with Amish people.) … Continue reading
Just read a NY Times piece on outgoing California Governor Jerry Brown. As a slate of new candidates line up out there, one particularly stands out to me: Desmond Silveira. Like Brown, he would lean toward social justice, toward good environmental … Continue reading
At the end of last week, the Associated Press reported that the Trump administration released a five-year off-shore drilling plan that would open up to 90% of coastal waters of the east coast, west coast, Gulf of Mexico, Alaska… A … Continue reading
Continuing to catch up on July… I did a newspaper article about St. Mary’s Church here and their “Appalachian connection.” Each year an outreach team from St. Mary’s goes to Kentucky’s Owsley County, one of the poorest in the country. … Continue reading
Catching up on the month of July… I wrote a good number of freelance articles for the Bluffton News. Each, for the most part, tied into various parts of my campaign’s platform. For instance, I did a story on residential … Continue reading
Jimmy Carter and Dr. Norman Borluag, who helped bring a “Green Revolution” to India and Pakistan in the early 1970s by increasing their rice and other food grain production, began a similar grassroots movement among small farmers in Africa. The … Continue reading
Met recently with Dan Kremer in Yorkshire, Ohio. He is an organic farmer who is an absolute evangelist for Catholic Rural Life Association teaching. He grows organically because he believes the artificial herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers are bad for the … Continue reading
I’ve picked a 75-mile radius to campaign in on nights and weekends in Northwest, Ohio. [And we’re asking our supports to do the same in their areas.] Last Saturday I stopped, first, at a Pilot Truck Stop about five miles … Continue reading